[BC] WLW

[Fred Gleason]

On Thursday 15 December 2005 15:32, Mark Durenberger wrote:
> Under their "test" call, at night they were believed to have sent
> clandestine messages into Europe during WWII. ?Or maybe that's urban
> legend.....

I suspect you may be thinking of the BBC's 'Avis' service, which did indeed 
broadcast coded messages for various national resistance groups in Europe 
during World War II.  It's a fascinating story, particularly how the Allied 
secret service agencies manipulated it so as to insinuate deceptive 
intelligence information regarding D-Day to the Germans.

I had not heard that the US had engaged in similar operations on this side of 
the water, but I'd be interested to hear any stories...

Cheers!


|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development  |
|                           |             Salem Radio Labs                |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| In the high ranges of Secret Service work the actual facts in many      |
| cases were in every respect equal to the most fantastic inventions of   |
| romance and melodrama.  Tangle within tangle, plot and counter-plot,    |
| ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross, true agent, false agent,    |
| double agent, gold and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the firing       |
| party, were interwoven in many a texture so intricate as to be          |
| incredible and yet true.  The Chief and the High Officers of the Secret |
| Service revelled in these subterranean labyrinths, and pursued their    |
| task with cold and silent passion.                                      |
|                                                                         |
|                                 -- Winston Churchill                    |
|                                 On the British Secret Service in WW II  |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|